Paralysed patients walk again using implant that allows thoughts to bypass injury

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Paralysed patients are walking again after scientists coaxed undamaged nerves into taking over leg movements in a world’s first which offers new hope for disabled people.

Jered Chinnock, 29, of Wisconsin, was left unable to move or feel anything below the middle of his torso after damaging his spinal cord when he was flung from his snowmobile while riding with friends in 2013.

But in a groundbreaking technique which combines electronic spinal cord stimulation and physical therapy, Mr Chinnock is now standing up and taking steps with just the assistance of a walking frame and gentle support from his physiotherapist.

“What this is teaching us is that those networks of neurons below a spinal cord...

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